They say the more things change, the more they stay the same.  As the following quotations from Booker T. Washington indicate, at times this can certainly seem true.  Read them, and see if they remind you of anyone you know (or, to be more precise, know of) but wish you didn't.

In 1911, Washington wrote:

There is another class of coloured people who make a
business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro
race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out
of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their
wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of
these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not
want to lose their jobs.

. . . .I am afraid that
there is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to
get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy
means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make
themselves prominent before the public.

Can you think of anyone who fits the above description? 

I think Washington has set a record for spinning in a grave.